The Queens Fool -- by Phillipa Gregory. I love the old English historic type stories and have enjoyed all of the Phillipa Gregory novels that I have gotten.
This is about the reign of Queen Mary -- daughter of King Henry 8th..and her sister - Princess Elizabeth and Robert Dudley and a few other historic characters. this author breathes life into history -- and puts forth a believable story. I enjoyed...RECOMMEND ... Read more »

I should have known...usually the Oprah book club ladies recommend books worth reading... but maybe I am shallow and too dense to wrap my head around the deep intense meaning in this author's books. This book has a few of the same characters as HOME -- previously ranted about commented on.
Actually started out somewhat promising -- with a father - son trip to find the grandfather's grave -- then kinda went nowhere fast. Only listened to 2 disks....
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Difficult - Difficult listen. Painful, slow, dragging... I usually do not give up and listen thru to the bitter end -- but I just could not get passed disc 4. Brother and sister and home to take care of old-sick-crabby father.... sister has issues - brother has issues and everyone spends all day long beating around the bush.
Son says "gad-damn-it" and father goes on and on and on and makes a federal case out of sone being disrespectful....
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Pillars of the Earth by Tom Follett....
This is a 30 disc audio book and is about a mason in the 12th century building a cathedral...
I am on disk 19 -- and the story has held my attention...
Strong recommend.....
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I read this book in 7th grade -- I saw it and had forgotten what Pip's deal was. Now I know I have like 0% of my memory left because I remembered about 10% of the book... for some reason I thought that when the old lady died they found the dead guy that left her at the alter dead in her bed. I guess that I am confusing all the warped reading that I did during jr high...
Actually, the step son had this on a reading list for this year and I saw it -- so thought I would listen again..... was ... Read more »